PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION SOCIETY
July Update
UPDATE OVERVIEW
As usual, the July Update brings you a Call for Dues for the just-beginning
fiscal and membership year 2000-01, greetings from President Nick Burbules,
information from 2001 Program Chair Suzanne Rice regarding next year's
conference, Action Summaries from the Board and Membership Meetings in
Toronto, and a series of announcements of potential interest to members.
Also accompanying this Update (and arriving separately if you receive
your Update by e-mail) are the Dues Form, a ballot for the Election Committee,
the Call for Papers for the Chicago Conference, and the Copyright Permission
Form to be submitted with papers. A business reply envelope has been provided
for your convenience. You may use it for dues and/or ballot.
FIRST CALL FOR 2000-01 DUES
Included in this mailing is the dues form for 2000-01. Please make your
check payable to "Philosophy of Education Society" or complete the required
credit card information. Return the form to Barb Stengel in the envelope
provided. (No postage necessary!)
As you probably realize by now, your mailing label indicates your dues
status. If your label reads "00-01," your dues for this membership year
are up to date. If your label has a "9" in it, this call for dues applies
to you.
This year's dues form has several special check-offs that require your attention:
- check if you wish to have your contact information OMITTED from the Society's web directory.
- check if you wish to receive the text of your Update in paper copy rather than e-mail.
- indicate if you have been previously approved as a Fellow of PES.
Your cooperation in checking the appropriate items will help us to serve
you and the Society better.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Nick Burbules
I am pleased to invite everyone to next spring's PES meeting in Chicago, March 30-April 2, 2001. David Hansen and Steve Tozer, Hospitality Co-chairs, have picked a fine hotel in the Congress Plaza, on Michigan Avenue, located near the Art Institute and Orchestra Hall, and within a short walk of the spectacular new museum campus that includes the Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, and Shedd Aquarium. We considered the advantages of simply canceling the paper sessions this year, to leave time for people to visit the many educational and historical sights that Chicago has to offer-- but decided instead to opt for a scheduled opportunity to visit Hull House and to leave some time in the program for people to get out of the conference hotel and sample their choice of architectural tours, classical music, theatre, museums, comedy clubs, Dewey's ghost at U of C, or any of several other unique aspects of Chicago's culture and traditions. Lake Michigan is lined with public parks, beaches (well maybe not in April), and scenic pathways for walking or jogging.
Suzanne Rice and the Program Committee promise an outstanding schedule of paper presentations, including invited addresses and alternative sessions. This year's conference will also feature the inaugural George Kneller lecture, the first in that newly endowed invited lecture series, and we are hard at work finding a speaker suitable for the occasion. We are also planning on some other notable additions to the regular program.
As a born Chicagoan, let me indulge in a little bragging about my home town, often dubbed the "Second City" (which is only used by Chicagoans with a tinge of irony). Chicago takes a back seat to no one for its world-class art museums, symphony orchestra, innovative theatre, and architectural tradition. For educators, and especially for educational philosophers, Chicago holds a special significance, of course. Its diversity of neighborhoods, music, and restaurants is legendary; and yet for all its size, it is a remarkably walkable city, and public transportation from the Loop (downtown) to most of these areas is very convenient. It is also a city where you can find a cab when you need one!
I will try to resist the predictable hyperbole about the first PES meeting of the new decade/century/millennium, and just say that we are planning a very special conference that we hope will be worthy of the location and the occasion. Please plan on joining us for the conference, and for those submitting papers or proposals for alternative sessions, PLEASE get them in on time.
See you in Chicago!
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Suzanne Rice reports that planning for the 2001 Conference is well underway
as she works with Nick Burbules and the Program Committee (Kal Alston,
Megan Boler, Pradeep Dhillon, Paul Farber, Christine McCarthy, Kevin McDonough,
Alven Neiman, Jana Noel, Walter Okshevsky and Susan Verducci) to secure
a worthy Kneller Lecturer and to construct a program that lives up to
the Chicago conference setting! One invited speaker has been confirmed:
Larry Hickman, Director of the Dewey Center at Southern Illinois University.
The quality of the program depends on you, of course, and your timely
submission of careful, interesting, provocative papers. Please attend
to the Call for Papers that accompanies this Update; specifications, dates
and contact information are listed. A style sheet for papers can be found
on the web at http://www.philosophyofeducation.orgstylesheet.htm.
The deadline for receipt of papers is November 1, 2000. E-mail inquiries
can be directed to Suzanne at srice@ukans.edu.
ELECTION OF THE ELECTION COMMITTEE Ballot included
Please choose seven (7) names from the candidates listed
Kal Alston, University of Illinois
Clive Beck, University of Toronto, OISE
Gert Biesta, University of Exeter
Deanne Bogdan, University of Toronto, OISE
Megan Boler, Virginia Tech University
Eric Bredo, University of Virginia
Eamonn Callan, Stanford University
Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois
Jana Noel, Montana State University
Allen Pearson, University of Western Ontario
Emily Robertson, Syracuse University
and return your ballot no later than September 15th to Executive
Secretary Barb Stengel. You may use the business reply envelope enclosed
for that purpose. If you return dues and ballot together, you may enclose
your ballot in a sealed envelope to preserve anonymity.
NEW FELLOWS, NEW MEMBERS
Congratulations are extended to Jaylynne Hutchinson, Ohio University,
and Susan Huddleston Edgerton, Western Michigan University, on being approved
as PES Fellows at the Board Meeting in late March!
We are attempting to compile a complete list of PES Fellows, an archival
record that has not been updated recently. You can help us by checking
off your status as Fellow on the dues form. (Please do this even if you
do not owe dues at this time; simply note your name and check Fellow.)
Because the Constitution requires Fellow status for all officers of the
Society, it is important that we provide the Election Committee with accurate
information.
If you are not presently a Fellow and meet the qualifications ("one whose
manifest interest and scholarly contribution is in the philosophy of education"),
please consider applying. If you have a colleague or friend who ought
to be a Fellow, please nominate him or her. Applications will be included
in the October mailing.
We continue to have new members join PES even as we lose folks from year
to year. Seventy four new members became part of the Society in 1999-00.
A full listing of their names can be found on our website (http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES).
Total membership in the Society is currently 474, almost exactly matching
that of last year. Our goal of course is to add 74 new members each year
while retaining past members. Please do your part to insure healthy membership
figures by encouraging interested persons to join.
ELECTION RESULTS
As those attending the Toronto Conference know, Barbara Houston has been
named President Elect. Audrey Thompson was elected to the Executive Board
and Barbara Applebaum was elected to COPA. Congratulations to all and
thanks for their willingness to serve! Thanks too to those who are rotating
out of these responsibilities: Past Past-President Emily Robertson, retiring
Board member Paul Farber, and COPA representative Kal Alston. Recognition
is due to Sharon Bailin and the Election Committee (Steve Norris, Victor
Worsfold, Megan Boler, David Hansen, Jim Giarelli, and Deanne Bogdan )
for a job well done.
MEETING MINUTES ACTION SUMMARY
Minutes for Board and Membership meetings conducted at the annual Conference
can be viewed on the Society's website (http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES)
. It's worth a trip to the site just to read the report of the Resolutions
Committee (thanks A.G., Jana and Eduardo!), read on-site in Toronto to
laughter and applause by Chair of the Committee, A.G. Rud. The following
actions were taken:
The Board:
- approved Jaylynne Hutchinson and Susan Huddleston Edgerton as Fellows of the Society.
- supported a $2.00 increase (from $10 to $12) for Educational Theory member subscriptions. (This action does not affect individual dues payments.)
- reiterated that the Yearbook would continue to be a benefit of membership, rescinding last year's move to charge a separate $25 fee for the Yearbook.
- decided to utilized business reply envelopes for members' dues payments and ballots.
- implemented a policy that all participants on conference program should be registered for conference and should be encouraged to become PES members.
- created an Ad hoc Committee on Ethics in the Educational Professions: it's charge would involve all educational fields, a survey of the ethical "state of the art," and target interventions to get ethics courses as part of preparation requirements.
- approved a no dues increase budget for 2000-01.
- created the PES Legacy Fund Committee that has as its purpose to generate activities to build and grow the Society. This Committee will establish a fund-raising campaign (committee members to be decided by President Burbules) to generate a minimum of $10,000, the proceeds of which will be used for above purposes.
- agreed to make membership information and member benefits such as journal subscriptions for other philosophy of education societies available to our members and to contact other organizations and ask them to do the same about us.
- directed that we issue and collect tickets for the Presidential Luncheon and that we project 10 more tickets than we have sold, selling tickets at the door up to the number of meals available.
- approved the 2001 Program Committee: Suzanne Rice, Chair, Walter Okshevsky, Megan Boler, Susan Verducci, Jana Noel, Kal Alston, Paul Farber, Pradeep Dhillon, and Al Neiman.
- decided not to contribute at this time to the CLSE Endowment Fund.
- clarified procedure for handling mailing list requests: that we provide the PES mailing list free of charge to all collegial organizations (e.g. PESGB) and that we charge a nominal fee ($50 or costs, whichever is higher) to others who request it (e.g. publishers).
The membership:
- requested that the Board formally consider the role of PES in responding to current crises of practice in basic education.
MEMBER SERVICES
In our continuing effort to make reasonable use of technological tools
in providing information and services to our members, we have secured
two web site names for the use of the Society: www.philosophyofeducation.org
and www.pesyearbook.org. These are
not yet viable addresses; Web builder Craig Cunningham is helping us figure
out how to integrate our present site at UIUC with a potential new site.
However, we are changing our e-mail address for member services to what
we hope will be easy to remember: help@philosophyofeducation.org.
The e-mail address many of you have been using pesbss@marauder.millersv.edu
will continue to operate for the foreseeable future. Still, now would
be a good time to change your e-mail address book for PES. And while you
are at it, why don't you create a bookmark on your browser at http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES.
If there is any change in our website, we'll let you know in the Update
and with forwarding addresses on-line.
OFFERS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST
- Leslie Marsh writes to us of the newly-formed Michael Oakeshott Association. Information regarding the Association can be found at http://www.michael-oakeshott-association.org.
- Call for Proposals: Histories and Addresses of Philosophical Societies, A special series in Values Inquiry Book Series, invites inquiries and proposals from philosophical societies for books and collections of essays that capture essential elements of those societies' histories and addresses. For more information, contact Richard T. Hull, Special Series Editor at rthull@swbell.net
- The Council of Learned Societies in Education (CLSE) has extended an open invitation for individual members of member societies to volunteer to serve as a CLSE representative on the NCATE Board of Examiners. PES member Wendy Kohli (kohliw@newschool.edu) is a current representative and could provide more information. To volunteer, contact Erskine Dottin at dottine@fiu.edu or Steve Tozer at stozer@uic.edu.
- PESGB is offering four pamphlets in their IMPACT series, devoted to educational policy issues and designed to be accessible to the non-philosopher, for $9 per volume plus $2.50 postage and packing. These include: Educational Assessment: A Critique of Current Policy by Andrew Davis, Performance, Pay and Professionals: Measuring the Quality of Teaching by Michael Luntley, Educational Equality and the New Selective Schooling by Harry Brighouse, and New Labour and the Future of Training by Christopher Winch. Contact christopher.winch@lineone.net for information about these and three other forthcoming pamphlets.
- PES members may be interested in becoming members of PESGB and receiving Journal of Philosophy of Education as a benefit of membership. Contact:
Dr Terence McLoughlin
Department of Education
University of Cambridge
17 Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1QA
UNITED KINGDOM
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY'S NOTES Barb Stengel
I have passed the threshold of an entire year in this post and I almost
know what I'm doing! Continuing thanks to Bob Floden for behind the scenes
support and forwarding the mail that just won't go where it should, and
to Diane, Diana and Tim at UIUC for steady cooperation and a little direction
when needed. All the folks connected with the 2000 Conference (Jim, Lynda,
Elizabeth, Margaret, Dwight) did their jobs so well that I had little
to do but stand back and applaud them.
Was it just me or did the Toronto Conference seem "just right"? Strong
papers, stimulating large group gatherings, raging receptions, lively
COPA and COSW sessions, friendly faces, great good humor, provocative
arguments, considerate service, well-appointed surroundings and just enough
organization to keep it all spinning . . . that's my impression. Chicago
promises to be just as good for all the reasons Nick notes in his message.
Plan now to be there!
Because we now have the Kneller Endowment to shepherd, because the Society
is planning an Endowment fund-raising campaign, and because we typically
invest our "rainy day funds," caring for PES' fiscal condition has become
a bit dicier. (I don't mind if I make a mistake with my own money but
worry a bit about making a mistake with yours!) The Board suggested that
I call out to members with some investment expertise to form an advisory
group. If there are a few among us who think they have the key to current
markets, please contact me directly (Barbara.Stengel@millersville.edu)
and we can chat about the value of such an advisory group.
Those who make their conference travel plans VERY early might want to know that:
- the 2001 Conference will begin with early registration and morning sessions on Friday,
March 30, 2001 and will conclude with two morning sessions on Monday, April 2nd. Those involved in the Executive Board Meeting should be available Thursday evening, March 29th and early afternoon Monday the 2nd as well.
- you can make reservations at the Congress Plaza Hotel by calling 1-800-635-1666 or 1-312-427-3800, EXT 5025. Room rates are single $125, double $145 ($25 for each additional person). Identify yourself as attending the PES Conference.
This is a long Update and we are a very busy group! Hope that your summer
is long, enjoyable, and not-so-busy . . .
CONTACT: PES Executive Cris Mayo
217-333-3673; cmayo@illinois.edu